Green v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Brown v. Koulizakis (1985), Weddle, Administratrix v. Draper (1963)
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Meade v. Saunders · Limbaugh v. Commonwealth · Blair v. Broadwater · Cohen v. Meador · Litz v. Harman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this State that, in the absence of negligence on the part of the father, a father is not liable for the torts of his minor child . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starr v. Ebbesen
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.